Pavan Navarathna
Senior Engineering Manager at Veeam Software
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPavan Navarathna is a Senior Engineering Manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience architecting and operating cloud-native backup and data management systems. At Veeam he progressed from individual contributor to senior manager, blending hands-on backend and DevOps skills with people leadership to deliver reliable backup, restore, and scheduling features at scale. An active open-source maintainer (notably on Kanister and contributions to Kopia), he focuses on Kubernetes-aware application-level data protection and practical tooling like Restic integrations and streaming restore support. His background spans product-grade engineering at NetApp and early-career systems work in India, giving him a strong foundation in distributed storage and infrastructure. Known for combining code-level improvements with documentation and maintainability work, he helps teams ship safer, more automatable data-management workflows. He holds an MS in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Florida and a BE in Information Science.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Information Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Information Science and Engineering at B. M. S. College of EngineeringMaster of Science (MS) Computer and Information Sciences General, Master of Science (MS) Computer and Information Sciences General at University of Florida
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
filesystem10
command-line-interface10
file-operations10
automation10
backup10
go10
sys10
fileio10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
automations10
cloud-native10
cli10
api-design9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kanisterio/kanister
May 2018 - Jan 2023
An extensible framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes, Kanister is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and was originally created by the Veeam Kasten team.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1151 reviews, 171 commits, 240 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Pavan's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Kanister framework. This included modifying fake client group names, implementing the "KubeExecAll" function, and refactoring the data backup and restore functions to utilize Restic for cloud uploads. Furthermore, the user made several documentation changes to highlight new functions and improve code clarity. The user also added support for PVC types and expanded the types of operations that could be performed.
golangdata-managementdata-protectionoperatorkubernetes
kopia/kopia
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Pavan primarily focused on enhancing the `kopia` backup tool's functionality, implementing features such as the ability to override hostname and username during snapshot creation. They added a `restore` command, enabling restoration of snapshots with file attributes, and incorporated support for streaming file sources. Moreover, the user integrated a manual scheduling option and refined existing codebase through removal of whitespaces and minor typo fixes. Their contributions spanned across core functionalities and also touched on DevOps aspects through the creation of the support for stdin streams.
google-cloud-storagebackupclidata-deduplicationend-to-end
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